Revised age groups for vaccines

The Faroese Covid vaccination programme will be completed by the first week of August, according to the revised vaccination calendar.

According to the latest revision of the vaccination programme, the remaining categories of vaccine recipients have been organised into one so-called group 10 – the 16-64 age group.

To ease the pressure on the vaccination centres, group 10 has been split into five subgroups:

55-64 year-olds

45-54 year-olds

34-44 year-olds

25-34 year-olds

16-24 year-olds 

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This means that the 55-64 age group will soon be eligible to register for vaccines.

People who are in risk groups will be given priority within each age group. Here is a list of risk groups (in Faroese and Danish).

Once this subgroup has been vaccinated, the 45-54 group is next in line, etc.

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According to the latest vaccination figures on corona.fo, updated today, 9,641 people (18.2 percent of the population) have received the first shot of the vaccine, while 5,189 (9.8 percent) have received the second shot.

Detailed vaccination guidelines are available here (in Faroese only).

For further information about Covid-19 in the Faroes, visit corona.fo.

Read the Faroese version of this article here

Translated by prosa.fo

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